[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 15517] Add an option to add panel items from a file.

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15517

--- Comment #5 from Andre Miranda <andreldm at xfce.org> ---
(In reply to lockywolf from comment #4)
> What I need is to be able to check out the source code for an obsolete
> plugin, compile it and load into the current panel without restarting
> anything. Then I would like to try and fix a bug, compile the plugin again,
> load the new .so (or whatever is the format of a plugin) and compare the
> behaviour of the new guy and the old guy on the same panel.

Using symlinks as described in [1] you get two versions of the same plugin at
the same time, but you still need to restart the panel or kill the wrapper
process.

1 -
https://wiki.xfce.org/dev/howto/panel_plugins#testing_and_releasing_the_plugin

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